Improvement in bale-ties



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- "JOHN w. IIEDENEEEG, OE oHIoAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 146,529, dated January 20, 1874 applicationrfiled i July 23, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. HEDENBERG, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Bale-Ties, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of the present invention consists in a buckle-plate, provided at one end with a folded-under part, between which and the 4 buckle-plate the bent end of the strap-iron is held in place irrespective of the pressure of the cotton, the opposite end of the strap-iron being looped to the buckle-plate in the ordinary manner, as hereinafter fully described and shown.

In the drawing, Figure lis a top or plan view of my improved bale-tie, showing the two ends of the strap-iron; Fig. 2, an edg'e be formed by bending it under the plate A,

as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. The buckleplate thus formed is ready to receive the single strap-iron, whose ends are shown at C D. For general use the end C is put over the bar H, over the bar G, and then bent back between the bars, as shown at K, Fig. 2, the cap K being from two to six inches long. The opposite end D is bent under, asl shown at L, Fig. 2, so as toA lap back an inch and i a half, or thereabout, andthe lap so formed is hooked over the bar I and put between it and the looped plate J B.

In practice, the strap-iron may be cut of such length as will wrap bales` in any particular press, in which oase the strap-iron is laid.,

the slack of the band and expansion of the bale can be but nominal, and not so much as to cause a waste of pressing power, as would be the case if the part L was lengthened out sufficiently to hold by friction of the cotton without the aid of the loop J B 5 and, further, that the peculiar form of cut n, when the part J B is bent on dotted lines S, causes the part B to project beyond the buckleplate A, and thus form a continuous support for the loop L, whereby the use of material is economized, inasmuch as the loop L may be very short.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States-` The buckle-plate A, provided with the bars H G I, in combination with the looped plate J B, constructed substantially as and for the purpose set forth. i.

JOHN W. HEDENBERG.

Witnesses J. H. ELLIOTT, G. L. CHAPIN. 

